Following the Right Compass
Following the Right Compass 2 Timothy 3:1-12. “Now you followed my teaching conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance.” We live in confusing times when it seems there are many views regarding moral truth. We live in a world where Alice’s (i.e., Alice in Wonderland) dream has become a reality. Alice describes her world in the story: “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary-wise, what it is wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would.” We live in a world where what used to be wrong has become right, and what formerly was right is not condemned as wrong. How do we determine direction and perspective in a confused world? In verses 1-5, Paul describes the world that we are living in. It is a world where people not only embrace sin but “hold to a form of godliness although they have denied its power.” In other words, they maintain a